Trains, the Underground and subways, sentence 12

In a crowded carriage you take off your backpack and hold it in front of you or at your feet, which gives others more space and stops it bumping them.

Who acts: you, space · What happens: take off, hold, give, stop, bump · To what, where: backpack, crowded carriage, front, more space, others

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains, the Underground and subways» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, space), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 carriage	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 carriage	det
3	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 carriage	amod
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 backpack	nmod:poss
9	backpack	backpack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hold	cc
11	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 front	nmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 feet	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 feet	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 you	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gives	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 gives	nsubj
23	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hold	conj
24	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gives	iobj
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 space	amod
26	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gives	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stops	cc
28	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 gives	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bumping	nsubj
30	bumping	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 stops	ccomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bumping	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	take off	present	you	your backpack		a crowded carriage	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backpack=Theme
2	hold	present	you not said here	backpack		front of you	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Location
3	give	present		more space	others		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent other=Recipient space=Theme
4	stop	present					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	bump	gerund	space	others = other			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:270-trains-and-subways.lesson:12.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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